IJMC - Yet Another Trivial Post

YATP. Why not. Hmm, lots of reasons, but, well, you're reading it anyway. 
The one that gets me is the 18,322 pieces of mail that will be (are?) 
mishandled every hour. I just wanna know, is that every hour the post 
office is open, or every hour of the day. I guess that's where my "You 
actually are a Winner of the Publisher's Clearinghouse sweepstakes" 
letter is, eh?                                                      -dave

P.S. Interesting thought, would I send the IJMC if I had a million 
dollars? I'm not making money...but if I had it...hmm...


If 99.9% is good enough then.......
 
12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour
2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year
2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers
Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day
315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year
880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect
cardholder information on their magnetic strips 
103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year
5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat
291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly
3056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the
three sections 
A typical day would be 24 hours long (give or take 86.4 seconds)


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did you know... 

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the
world's widest road. 
99% of the solar system's mass is concentrated in the sun.
A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.
A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes at least
twenty minutes to stop. 
A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.  Most of the sweat
evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though! 
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by
automobiles.